LONDON, UK – Led by Telus, Canada now boasts some of the fastest LTE speeds in the world, says OpenSignal in its latest State of Mobile Networks: Canada report released Wednesday.
The wireless mapping coverage company examined over 405 million measurements collected from 20,474 mobile test devices between October 1 and December 30, 2017.
“In our 4G speed tests, Telus not only established a commanding lead over its competitors, it demonstrated some truly remarkable results”, reads the report. “Our average 4G download for Telus was 44.5 Mbps, which is among the fastest individual operator results we've measured on a nationwide level.”
The report clocked Bell’s average 4G download speeds at 35.4 Mbps and Rogers at 27.6 Mbps, both well above the global 4G average of 16.6 Mbps as measured in its most recent State of LTE report, OpenSignal added. Telus' 4G speed score jumped 50% in the 12 months since the last report, while Bell's LTE speed score increased 25%. Rogers's LTE speeds, however, held steady between reports.
Canada's already close contest in 4G availability got even closer with testers on Bell, Rogers and Telus all able to find a 4G signal more than 86% of the time, resulting in a three-way tie in the report’s availability metric.
OpenSignal added that Canadian operators are on track to cross the 90% nationwide 4G availability threshold.
“There's no question Canada is a global 4G superpower today”, continues the report. “That likely means there are few other countries better prepared than Canada to deploy the 5G networks of the future.”
